Improvement in hotel-ranges



G. W... GRAVES.

HUTEL RANGE.

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No. 184,0?2. 1 Patenteld Nov.?,1875.-

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' `Befit knewn that `LyGrnoReE W..GRnvEs, y of the ci-tyiandcounty. of Albany,`and State i of NewYork, have invented a new'and Iin-: lproved Method of Constructing 'andArrang- .ing Hotel-Ranges, of which the following isa 4specificationz` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 184,072, dated November 7,1876; application filed- 1 i April grieven' i The nature of my 4invention consistsin Vthe construction and arrangementof two'separate `ranges,.and their combination with an inter# 'mediate section, so that a" water reservoir -placed in the latter may be heated by one.` or i both of the combined ranges, and by theseparate and disconnected actionoffeither'or both. My invention also consistsin-omitting the exterior wall of the vertical fines of both Iranges, andl the substitution therefor of Ithe side walls of the intermediate section,with the `latter taking the place of the omitted rangewall, to inclose the ascendingfand. descending `iiues of each range. y manner of constructing the side walls of the intermediate section by forming recesses there- It further consists in the in, and opposite to the vertical lues ofthe ranges, againstwhich the intermediate section -s placed. It `also consists in dividing the inside inclosure of the'intermediate section in two stories laterally, With'theupper one 'fitted to receive a Water-reservoir, and thelofwer one `connected with the warmimg-closet inclosure of thetwo adjoining and .contiguous ranges. My invention also consists of 'dividing the space within the intermediatesectionat'the front, back, and bottom of the reservoir when inposition, in-two vertical longitudinal parts by means of a vertical division partition, and so thatone-half ofthe space between the reservoir exterior and the outer Wall of the intermediate section shall be 'separate andf'disconnected from thefother, with each space so dii vided, inA connection Withone of the combined ranges, by means of dampered openings leadi combined, Iranges L and lintermediatev section,

and lthis is designated` for `detailed reference -as1Fig.;1. Plate 2 illustrates the samecoin.- bined range inperspective, with thetwo ranges and intermediatesection bywhich itis formed separated and detached7 with-thereservoir removed and shown by itself. Plate Sillustrates two vertical sectional views of :the intermediate sectiomtakenon designated lines ofdivis- A ion to.l be hereinafter described, and these are separately distinguished as-Figs. 6andi7. ij-k i Figure l, Plate 1,illustrates as `facingth'e view, a right andl left fronting range` at Arand A, with the :intermediate section at B, the reservoir in `positionat R, the ovensatS S, the warming-closet doors at KKK, and the separate exit-dues of each range at'Y J and ,JQ The ranges A', and A, as they formno,p art of my invention considered by themselves, need not bedescribed, excepting as relates to such elements of. construction as are applied to them for the -pnrposescofrthe combination in whichl use them-inconnection with theinj; termediate section. One Vof these featurescong sists inj makingthem with right andleft ends, and so thatwhen the fronts 4of both areparfv al-lel the vertical flue ends of each rangewill face 'tow-ard the other. VAnother .feature of their' construction, for thepurposes ofLlco-op; erating combination, consists in thevomission ofthe ordinary andusual verticalwallofeach range back of and: opposite the verticaliiues for the reception oftheside Walls ofthe intermediate section, which,'in theiorganizationiof co-operating. parts, takesl the place-` of'` the omitted endplates. It also consists, 'asans other separate featurein thefurther omission of tlieend Walls of both ranges below-fthe ovens, sothat the` warming-closetsof bothlof them may'connect withathat space foimed in the intermediate section belo w the reservoirchamber, as showniat KWK" ofFig.. 3.

Figs. 2 and 4, Plate 2, illustrate" theA same combination of twoirangesy and an intermediate section, as is shown yat Fig. Vl, Plate 1, with the ranges separatedfrom. the'intergmediate section, and detached to show the manner in Whichlthey areconnected. The two ranges4 aredesignated `asiA'andned/es well by reference as Figs. 2 and 4, with the intermediate section B designated as Fig. 3. Ihe flue-wall and warming-closet wall of both the ranges is omitted, exposing to view the vertical flues of each range at F and F, with the ings formed in its walls, which will be subse-Y quently herein described.

Fig. 3, Plate 2, illustrates, in perspective, the intermediate section separated from the two ranges with the reservoir removed. Upon the side walls of the intermediate section there are formed recesses C C projected into its inclosed space, and when the ranges and intermediate section are joined these recesses are opposite to and form one wall of the vertical vflues of each range. (Shown at F" and F of Figs. 2 and 4.) Below these recesses there are formed in both of the side walls ot' the intermediate section the dampered openings B Bf. rIhese openings are made to t and suit the surfaces ot' the dampers J J, (shown at Figs. 2 and 4,) and when the ranges and intermediate section are in position and combined, these dampers regulate the flow of heat from the fines F and FIl of Figs.2 and 4 into the intermediate section.

Fig. 5, Plate 2, illustrates the reservoir as detached and separated from the intermediate section.

Fig. 6, Plate 3, shows fa longitudinal vertical section of the intermediate section, taken on the line L L of Fig. 3, Plate 2, in which the vertical partition-strips G G upon their inner edges are shown in contact with the end .wall ot' the reservoir R, which is' in position within the intermediate section, and so as to vertically divide the space at the ends of the reservoir, and between it and the walls of the inclosure in two parts longitudinally. But

yone ofthese spaces is seen in this illustration, and this is designated at a. Each ot' ythese spaces connects with the range-nues at the bottom of the reservoir by means ot' the dampered openings formed in the side walls of the intermediate section, as shown at R R R B", Figs. 2 and 4. In this illustration, Fig. 6, the lateral plate which divides the intermediate section into an upper and lower story is designated by the letters G G. Fig. 7, Plate 3, illustrates a cross-sectiona vertical view of the intermediate section taken on the lineO'O of Fig. 3, Plate 2. In this illustration, Fig. 7, the recesses formed in the side -walls ot'V the intermediate section are designated at O 0, the reservoir in position at It, and the two heating-spaces beneath the reservoir ata, a; the lateral plate at Gl G,`With the part of the division-plate upon which the reservoir rests at S". This latterrportion of the division-plate divides the area beneath the reservoir in two parts, as designated at a a. The division-plate S runs from front to rear, and unites with the vertical partitionstrips G G ot' Fig. 6. Each one of the two spaces a a is connected with the range adjoining it; but the spaces a a, do not connect with each other, but may be used separately or together to heat the water-reservoir in thein termediate section.

The two ranges A and A have separate res, and their lire-chambers are of' the ordiiiary kind in use, and they also have separate exit-pipes for the escape ot' smoke into the chimney. They have one connected feature, and that is the one which makes the Warming-closet space underneath the range-ovens unite in continuous inclosure with the space under the reservoir-.chamber of the intermediate section by means of the openings K K in the former, and the corresponding ones, K K, in the latter. With the dampers J J open, otl which there is one in each range,

the heat from the ranges in passing through' the vertical dues will expand into and enter the spaces a a in the intermediate section beneath the reservoir. These spaces also connect with the divided spaces at'the ends and sides of the reservoir, formed by the divisionplates G G and S, and thus each range will heat one-half of the reservoir within the divided reservoir-chamber of the intermediate section independently,iand one may be used without the other to perform this ofce; or both may be used at the same time, but not with connected currents of heat. 'Ihe two ranges thus combined with an intermediate section willheatareservoir of large capacity,

and at the same time form a large warmingclosettwo very desirable features in a hotelrange. v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination, the two ranges A and A and the intermediate section B, with the vertical end plates of the ranges omitted opposite the vertical flues of each range, and, as substituted therefor, the sides of the intermediate section, and, by the application of the latter, to inclose the vertical nues of the ranges against the oven-Walls, as and for the purposes herein -shown and described.

2. In combination, the two ranges A' and A and the intermediate section B, with the vertical walls of both of the ranges omitted at each of their ue ends, where the vertical walls are opposite to and form the end walls of the warming-closet inclosures below the oven, to form a connected and continuous warming-closet space beneath the range-ovens and the reservoir heating-chamber of the intermediate section, as herein shown and described.

3. In combination, the two ranges A' and A" and the intermediate vsection B,-withzthe 154.072 I v i dampers J J, and the openings R B." R" B. made in the vertical side Walls that inclose the intermediate section, and form the vertical flue-Walls of the two ranges, substantially as shown and described.

4. The recesses C GU G, formed in the vertical side walls of the intermediate section. opposite to and in communication with the vertical dues of each range, With the recesses projected into the inclosure of the intermedireservoir heating-chamber of the intermediate section from the lower space within its inclosure, to form a continuous Warming-closet under the ranges and intermediate section, as shown and described.

6. In combination, the reservoir R, and partition-strips G Gr and S, and the lateral division-plate G, arranged Within the intermediate section, to form the separate heating-spaces c a with each of the latter spaces, in connection with the vertical ues of the range, which it adjoins by means of the dampered openings R B. R R, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Horseheads on the 11th day of April, 1876.

GEO. W. GRAVES.

l Witnesses: i

THOMAS HIBBARD, DEWIC'LT STABING. 

